Stan Rogers

"Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage And make a northwest passage to the sea."

"Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones."

"Race the roaring Fraser to the sea."

"To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men To find there but the road back home again."

"Oh, the year was seventeen seventy-eight (how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!)"

"God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold we'd fire no guns -- shed no tears! Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers."

"Rise again Rise again That her name not be lost to the knowledge of men."

"No matter what you've lost Be it a home, a love, a friend Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again."

"And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go"